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Patterns of Childhood

of Christa Wolf, Ursule Molinaro (Translator), Hedwig Rappolt (Translator)

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Description

This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg. Returning to her native town in East Germany forty years later, accompanied by her inquisitive and sometimes demanding daughter, Christa Wolf attempts to recapture her past and to clarify memories of growing up in Nazi Germany

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Fiction Fiction Germany German Literature Historical Fiction World War II Womens Historical Classics Literature Novels

Main Characters

Charlotte Jordan Whiskers Grandma Nelly Aunt Dottie Bruno Jordan

Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 416 pages
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication Date July 1st 1984
  • First Publication 11/06/76
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780374518448
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Fiction
  • Scenario ['Landsberg (Warthe) (Germany)', 'Gorzów (Poland)']

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